Patni Computer Systems Limited American De Stock Downgraded (PTI)

Patni Computer Systems Limited American De (NYSE:PTI) has been downgraded by TheStreet Ratings from from a buy to hold.

NEW YORK ( TheStreet) -- Patni Computer Systems Limited American De (NYSE: PTI) has been downgraded by TheStreet Ratings from buy to hold. The company's strengths can be seen in multiple areas, such as its revenue growth, largely solid financial position with reasonable debt levels by most measures and reasonable valuation levels. However, as a counter to these strengths, we also find weaknesses including deteriorating net income, disappointing return on equity and poor profit margins.

Highlights from the ratings report include:

Return on equity has greatly decreased when compared to its ROE from the same quarter one year prior. This is a signal of major weakness within the corporation. In comparison to the other companies in the IT Services industry and the overall market, PATNI COMPUTER SYSTEMS's return on equity is significantly below that of the industry average and is below that of the S&P 500.

The company, on the basis of change in net income from the same quarter one year ago, has significantly underperformed when compared to that of the S&P 500 and the IT Services industry. The net income has significantly decreased by 92.4% when compared to the same quarter one year ago, falling from $31.74 million to $2.42 million.

PTI's debt-to-equity ratio is very low at 0.00 and is currently below that of the industry average, implying that there has been very successful management of debt levels.

PTI's revenue growth trails the industry average of 23.5%. Since the same quarter one year prior, revenues slightly increased by 9.7%. This growth in revenue does not appear to have trickled down to the company's bottom line, displayed by a decline in earnings per share.

Patni Computer Systems Limited, an information technology (IT) services company, provides a range of IT services through integrated onsite and offshore delivery locations. The company has a P/E ratio of 7.9, above the average computer software & services industry P/E ratio of 4.5 and below the S&P 500 P/E ratio of 17.7. Patni Computer Systems Limited American De has a market cap of $979.7 million and is part of the technology sector and computer software & services industry. Shares are down 33.3% year to date as of the close of trading on Tuesday.